Security Advisory - Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability in Huawei Smartphone Product
- SA No:huawei-sa-20200819-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Aug 19, 2020
- Last Release Date: Aug 26, 2020
There is an improper privilege management vulnerability in Huawei smart phone product. A local, authenticated attacker could craft a specific input to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploitation may lead to local privilege escalation. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2020-05272)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-9080.
Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20200819-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro |
10.1.0.135(C01E135R2P8) |
10.1.0.163(C01E160R2P8) |
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HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro (UD) |
10.1.0.135(C00E135R3P8) |
10.1.0.163(C00E160R3P8) |
|
HUAWEI nova 5i |
Versions earlier than 10.0.0.125(C01E123R7P3) |
10.0.0.125(C01E123R7P3) |
By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker can lead to local privilege escalation.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 7.8 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Temporal Score: 7.2 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker could access the system.
Vulnerability details:
There is an improper privilege management vulnerability in Huawei smart phone product. A local, authenticated attacker could craft a specific input to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploitation may lead to local privilege escalation.
This vulnerability was discovered by Huawei internal tester.
2020-08-26 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;
2020-08-19 V1.0 INITIAL
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